A Centralia couple accused of driving across the country in an attempt to escape prison terms on child abuse charges will be held without bail pending sentencing.

Anthony Foxworth, 45, and Mary Foxworth, 43, made their first appearances Wednesday in Lewis County Superior Court following their arrest in South Carolina after they fled their sentencing on first-degree criminal mistreatment charges. They were extradited back to Washington and booked into the Lewis County Jail last week.

Anthony Foxworth, left, made his first appearance in Lewis County Superior Court Wednesday after being arrested in South Carolina while allegedly on the run from a four-year sentence on child abuse charges.

The couple also pleaded not guilty Wednesday to one new charge each of bail jumping with an aggravating factor alleging that “the offense involved a destructive and foreseeable impact on persons other than the victim.”

Bail jumping is a Class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

The Foxworths pleaded guilty in October one count each of first-degree criminal mistreatment. They were charged in 2016, about a year after their then-16-year-old son was found weighing 54 pounds with neglect-related medical conditions. He was hospitalized for several weeks and placed into foster care, as were two other children in the Foxworths’ care.

Both were scheduled on Nov. 1 to be sentenced to a Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office-recommended sentence of 51 months, or about 4 years in prison. However, the Foxworths were out of police custody and never showed up for the hearing.